Episode 8

EPISODE 8

螢子あやうし!邪眼師・飛影 (Keiko Ayaushi! Jagan-shi・Hiei)

Keiko In Peril!  Hiei, the Jagan Master

First Broadcast: November 28, 1992

Equivalent Manga Chapter(s): chapter 23, (WSJ #23, 1991, May 27), chapter 24 (WSJ #24, 1991, June 3)

Summary: Hiei kidnaps Keiko, and Yusuke tracks them down to a warehouse. Hiei dodges Yusuke’s attacks at first, but Yusuke finally manages to smack him square in the face.  Unfazed, Hiei transforms and gains the upper hand, but Yusuke wins with Kurama’s help and some quick thinking. The 3 treasures are returned

Anime/manga differences after the jump.

Differences from the Manga

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• Hiei keeps mentioning that he wants to rule the Spirit World in the anime, but in the manga he just wants to use the treasures to make a big army of demon followers so he’ll be able to take whatever he wants (which is never really specified).

• When Botan explains about how she bought a school uniform so that she wouldn’t stand out while talking with Yusuke at school, in the manga Yusuke thinks to himself about how despite the fact that Botan apparently makes her living in the Human World as a fortuneteller, he still has no idea where she lives or how old she is.  This is left out in the anime.

• Yusuke’s demon detector thing lets him know that Hiei is 5 km away.  In the manga Yusuke asks Botan how the detector can know this, since previously it’d been said to only work without 500 meters for Yusuke, since his spiritual power is still not that high.  Botan explains that Hiei is purposefully letting them know where he is, and that he’s very powerful (and therefore presumably easier to detect).  The limited range of the detector wasn’t mentioned earlier in the anime, so Yusuke doesn’t ask Botan about it, but she still says Hiei’s purposefully letting them know where he is.

• In the manga Yusuke beats up the brain-washed humans that are hanging out in Hiei’s warehouse base, but in the anime Botan tells him not to, since they’re humans rather than demons (she tells him this too in the manga, but only after he beats some up).

• After Hiei dodges Yusuke’s Spirit Gun, in the manga Yusuke keeps scooting along the wall with Hiei following after him, telling him it’s pointless to struggle.  That’s when the reflected Spirit Gun hits Hiei in the back, the idea being that it bounced off the Dark Mirror at a slight angle, so Yusuke had to lure Hiei into the correct position for it to hit him.  In the anime it just bounces straight back and hits Hiei, and Hiei doesn’t have much time to say anything.

• In the manga Kurama has already given Keiko the antidote by the time Yusuke defeats Hiei, but in the anime Yusuke himself gives it to her.

• Once the fight with Hiei wraps up and things skip ahead several days, Botan tells Yusuke that King Enma ultimately found out the treasures had been stolen, since even though they were returned they were still in bad shape.  In the manga Yusuke wonders if King Enma threw a big temper tantrum (which would cause earthquakes in the Human World, this being why Yusuke had to get the treasures back so soon), but Botan explains that since the treasures were already returned, he wasn’t that angry and only Koenma suffered any penalty.  In the anime when Yusuke hears that King Enma found out, he just asks whether Koenma got punished and Botan says it wasn’t so bad, leaving it less clear why the huge disasters that were supposed to happen if King Enma learned that the treasures were stolen never occurred.

• Yusuke and Botan’s conversation at the end takes place out in the street in the manga, but up on the school roof in the anime.